Ploesti Air Raids on Romania Oil Fields World War II
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Gen. Jacob E. Smart, a four-star general who conceived the strategy for the daring World War II bombing raid on the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania, and went on to help shape the postwar Air Force, died Sunday in Ridgeland, S.C., in the house in which he was born.He was 97.The cause was congestive heart failure, his son, William, said. General Smart, then a colonel, came up with the idea ...
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